Usually Summer vacation for me, means Summer classes, but for the last few years this isn’t the case. All through undergrad I took Summer classes so that I didn’t have to take 18 credits a semester otherwise, 15 was fine for me. In Grad school I even spent the Summer at Albany taking two education classes I would need before getting my K-12 certificate. Then the trend stopped, a class I signed up for during my first summer as a teacher was dropped, so I took it that fall…and since then, I’ve been free! Free to take my classes during the school year while working…joy. My own fault, I don’t need a second Masters Degree, I just want to learn more about web 2.0, and this Discovery School/Wilkes Online Courses in Instructional Media were too perfect to not sign up for. I mean Kathy Schrock teaches one of the classes! Now one of mine…and that might mean NOTHING to you actually, but it’s pretty darn cool.

So how do I spent my new, class-less Summers? Sleeping mostly. Exactly.

2 years ago I went on mini vacations, Vermont to visit Vanya and Long Beach Island, New York City trips. Last year I had one vacation, to visit my BF in NJ, but there was a death in the family. This year, THIS YEAR, oh THIS YEAR!!! I have plans though. Artuso is dragging me to Europe. I mean it, drag. I’m not a good traveler. I hate planes and cars and buses, MOSTLY buses. I get air sick, motion sick, car stick, and just plain STRESSED OUT. Good Luck to Artuso. Lucky she has been my friend for 10 years now, so she’s probably used to it to some extent.

I want to go to Europe. I just don’t want to GO to Europe. I want to just snap my fingers and be there without any planning or actual traveling. Is that too hard to ask?

I was all gung -ho (where does that word come from?) about looking good for this trip, but my great planss that started at Christmas fell apart. I stopped doing the Wii, I did re-start my running, only to stop and restart again, and I gained 4lbs, which seems like nothing, but I had dropped a whole tens place LOL I was in the 140’s sure it was 148….but that is ther 140s, IT COUNTS.

I have the ability to dro weight, I lost 30lbs in college, but aqs Vanya very kindly reminded me, I looked like death. I was only eating rice krispies and mandrine oranges and I was exrcising 4 times a day. I was skinny for me, but I was dizzy, and pale (paler than usual, can you imagine??) I look better round, but right now I’m….too round.

So I decided to kick it up a notch. It’s wither this or I buy nutisystem for 8 weeks and starve myself on cardboard tasting food, which is still sadly an option. I restarted my running. I’m on week 3 of C25k (though I took last week off, but sure why) and today I started my wake up at 6:32 and exercise campaign.

Last time I tried this I lasted one day, one day of Yoga. I’m a sad sad person. Today I decided that I really hate myself and began the 30 day Shred (which, IF I CAN COMPLETE IT, will probably become the 6 week shred) Anything that has JUMPING JACKS in the WARM UP section is EVIL. I thought if I blogged about my attempts I might be more likely to pretend i’d be letting people down besides myself and follow through. Last yeart with the c25K program I was about to start week 6 when I fell apart, so I know I have…some ability to be athletic….some ability to be ALMOST athletic…or athletic for a chubby girl.

So I’m going to TRY to do a full week off the Shred Video, and report my feelings afterwards in this blog, and also keep up with my c25k, and try t eat three meals a day…which, strangely enough, will be my hardesr challenge. I did just have mandrine oranges, and I plan to eat MORE than just those, and there are NO rice krispies in the apartment!

My thoughts from Level 1, Day 1: Gillian Micheals is the devil. I’m not sure if I was crying, or sweating into my eyes (ewww) I think both. I fail at Cardio. I need better sneakers, and the girl doing the easy modifications has the scariest stomach I have ever seen, when she does her ab work I see her entire ribcage, and it is chilling…and yet I can’t look away.

More Coming? But for now, I have work at 9am, so I should probably get ready. I think they would fire me if I wore a nightgown to work.